{"id":202330,"date":"2024-12-24T14:13:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T20:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/supermassive-black-hole-found-tipped-onto-its-side-by-mystery-event"},"modified":"2024-12-24T14:13:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T20:13:54","slug":"supermassive-black-hole-found-tipped-onto-its-side-by-mystery-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/supermassive-black-hole-found-tipped-onto-its-side-by-mystery-event","title":{"rendered":"Supermassive Black Hole Found Tipped Onto Its Side by Mystery Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AUeTOE3FtVI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A glowing galaxy not far from the Milky Way has been harboring a strange, puzzling secret at its core.<\/p>\n<p>In the center of NGC 5,084, some 80 million light-years away, the supermassive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">black hole<\/a> around which the whole galaxy revolves has been discovered tipped over on its side, with its rotational axis parallel to the galactic plane.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a bit like<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/there-s-another-way-uranus-could-have-ended-up-tipped-on-its-side\"> the Uranus of black holes<\/a>, and astronomers are uncertain how it could have gotten that way \u2013 especially since the evidence suggests that it wasn\u2019t always oriented as it is in our current observations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A glowing galaxy not far from the Milky Way has been harboring a strange, puzzling secret at its core. In the center of NGC 5,084, some 80 million light-years away, the supermassive black hole around which the whole galaxy revolves has been discovered tipped over on its side, with its rotational axis parallel to the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}